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Education: Young Offender Institutions

Answer

Figures collected by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Youth Justice Board (YJB) for September 2008 to August 2009 indicate that in Prison Service YOIs, young people in juvenile YOI accommodation received an average of 27.5 hours per person per week of education, training and personal development. The data also indicate that young female offenders in juvenile Prison Service YOIs received an average of 30.1 hours of education, training and personal development activity per person per week during the same period. These figures encompass a range of education and constructive activities. From October NOMS have implemented new data collection systems which, along with data returns from the LSC will allow greater accuracy and detail in reporting on education, training and constructive activities in the future.The YJB report that in private YOIs, young people received an average of 33.9 hours of education, training and personal development activity per week during August 2008 to September 2009. Female offenders are not currently held in private YOIs.In Secure Children's Homes (SCHs) and Secure Training Centres (STCs) the YJB report against the number of young people who received a minimum of 30 hours of provision per week. Data indicate that between September 2008 and August 2009, 91.3 per cent. of young people in SCHs received a minimum of 30 hours of provision and in STCs this was 99 per cent. of young people. The YJB do not collect the information broken down by gender in STCs and SCHs.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

499 c983W; 295914

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Education Young offender institutions

Link

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